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Air Quality Index (AQI) data from PurpleAir sensor at H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest LTER
This dataset contains hourly air quality and meteorological measurements collected from a PurpleAir sensor deployed at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) site. The data includes four variables: timestamp (in Pacific Time), relative humidity (%), temperature (°C), and particulate matter concentrations (PM2.5 in µg/m³ using the CF=1 correction factor). The sensor provides continuous monitoring of local air quality conditions, with particular focus on fine particulate matter that can impact ecosystem health and visibility. Data are recorded at hourly intervals and timestamped in ISO 8601 format with UTC offset. PM2.5 values are reported using PurpleAir's CF=1 (Correction Factor 1) algorithm, which is optimized for atmospheric particulate matter. This dataset supports long-term environmental monitoring objectives at the Andrews Forest LTER and provides baseline air quality data for research on atmospheric conditions, wildfire smoke impacts, and climate-ecosystem interactions in Pacific Northwest forest ecosystems.
Minneapolis-St. Paul Air Quality Sensor output 2024-2025
In the summers since field research at the MSP LTER began, wildfire smoke has led to record highs in Minnesota's Air Quality Index and there has been increasing public concern over the acute and long-term impacts of exposure to toxins in the air. In 2024, the MSP LTER acquired a small network of PurpleAir sensors to place in key areas alongside transplanted lichens that are also used in air quality research. In addition to Particulate Matter, the sensor models used here also are equipped with experimental VOC detection (Volatile Organic Compounds). PurpleAir sensors were collocated with lichens at two locations in St. Paul MN, one in Roseville MN, and one at Cedar Creek Ecosystem Reserve in Northern Anoka County, MN. After lichen material was collected, the sensors remained at the site to keep reporting to community air quality tracking maps. Data from the sensors is being regularly appended to a file on the MSP LTER GitHub page and is planned to be archived long-term.
Weather and Air Quality data for Ireland as RDF data cube
<p>Weather, Air Pollution and Events data represented as RDF data cube. The original weather data has been downloaded from https://www.met.ie//climate/available-data/historical-data and the Air Quality data from <a href="https://discomap.eea.europa.eu/map/fme/AirQualityExport.htm">https://discomap.eea.europa.eu/map/fme/AirQualityExport.htm</a> and <a href="https://discomap.eea.europa.eu/map/fme/AirQualityExportAirbase.htm">https://discomap.eea.europa.eu/map/fme/AirQualityExportAirbase.htm</a>. The Events data refers to random events within the Republic of Ireland.</p> <p>The data has then been uplifted by running the {eeaMapping, metMapping, eventsMapping}.py scripts, which generate R2RML mappings to convert the CSV data to RDF. The mappings re-use vocabularies and ontologies that are W3C recommendations for dataset descriptions (DCAT, https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-dcat-2/), statistical data (RDF Data Cube, https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-data-cube/) and provenance data (PROV-O, https://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/). The scripts use the R2RML engine from https://github.com/chrdebru/r2rml to execute the mappings which generate a data and metadata files for each of the datasets.</p> <p> </p>
Modified WRF/Chem source code, output data, and post-processing scripts for the GMD manuscript "Evaluation of WRF/Chem model (v3.9.1.1) real-time air quality forecasts over the Eastern Mediterranean"
<p>Here you will find the modified WRF/Chem code used in the simulations, the scripts used for post-processing and the model output data used in the manuscript. </p> <p>Two modifications have been made in module_aerosols_soa_vbs.F:</p> <ol> <li>ch_dust is set to1.0D-9*0.36</li> <li>The model is set not to initialize during restarts</li> </ol> <p>The model data directory includes:</p> <ol> <li>Two csv files (Winter and Summer) with the hourly concentrations of atmospheric pollutants at the locations of the ground stations. These data were used to produce Figures 4-8 in the manuscript as well as all the metrics.</li> <li>Two netcdf files (Winter and Summer) with the average ground concentrations of atmospheric pollutants over Cyprus. These data were use to produce Figure 3 in the manuscript. </li> </ol>
Regional Datasets for Air Quality Monitoring in European Cities
<p>The primary environmental health threat in the WHO European Region is air pollution, impacting the daily health and well-being of its citizens significantly. To effectively understand the impact, and dynamics of air quality a detailed investigation of different environmental, weather, and land cover indices is appropriate. To this end, this paper introduces three European cities’ spatiotemporal datasets, customized for air pollution monitoring at a regional level. The datasets are composed of major air quality, weather measurements and land use information. The duration is approximately from 2020 to 2023 with an hourly temporal resolution and a spatial resolution of 0.005◦. The temporal and spatiotemporal datasets are publicly released aiming to provide a solid foundation for researchers, analysts, and practitioners to conduct in-depth analyses of air pollution dynamics.</p>
COMPAIR traffic and air quality sensor data
<p>Sensor data regarding traffic and air quality was gathered as part of the <a href="https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101036563">EU Horizon2020 COMPAIR project</a> in Europe. The pilot cities/regions are Berlin, Athens, Sofia, Plovdiv, and Flanders.<br><br>During the project, the data was published through an <a href="https://sensorthings.wecompair.eu/FROST-Server/v1.1/Things">OGC SensorThings API</a>. To persist after the project, the air quality related are available as CSV exports, with the retention of the API's structure (Location, Thing, Datastream, Sensor, ObservedProperty, and Observation). Observations about air quality contain sensor readings regarding nitrodioxide (NO2), black carbon (BC), particulate matter (PM1.0, PM2.5 and PM10), humidity and temperature. The NO2 observations are calibrated data streams.<br><br>The traffic observations remain available through the <a href="https://app.swaggerhub.com/apis-docs/telraam/Telraam-API/1.2.0">API of the Telraam platform</a>.<br><br><br></p>
PM2.5, PM10, NO2, O3 from Copernicus Air Quality Forecast March-June 2019, 2020 and 2021
<p>PM2.5, PM10, NO2, O3 Copernicus Air Quality Forecasts March-June 2019, 2020 and 2021 retrieved from the ADAM platform data cube (http://reliance.adamplatform.eu). Datasets are monthly averaged.</p> <p>The resulting extracted datasets are stored in netCDF format and cover Europe.</p>
Air quality trends for Berlin and Hamburg (2021-2022)
<p><strong>Air pollution constitutes the greatest environmental challenge in Europe (EEA, 2023).</strong> In the context of <strong>CALLISTO</strong>, an EU-funded project, and most specifically its pilot use case "Sensor Journalism", air pollution is studied from a journalistic point of view through an integrated solution comprised of multiple data visualisation tools. One of these tools is <strong>CALLISTO's Geospatial Business Intelligence (GeoBI) tool</strong>, which provides various visualisations of primarily air quality data and its purpose is to enable journalists identify air quality events and trends to build their stories.</p> <p>The GeoBI tool harnesses data from various sources <em>(e.g., official ground-based monitoring stations, low-cost sensing networks, satellites, social media)</em>, providing various visual elements <em>(e.g., figures, maps, pipe graphs, etc.) </em>on historical, near real-time and forecast air quality data, and has the ability to extract and interpret the data in some extent. For example, it takes into consideration the concentrations of the available air pollutants to display an Air Quality Index accompanied with a characterisation of the air quality in a specific location. Further data sources on socio-economic and environmental factors <em>(e.g., roadworks data) </em>are also explored.</p> <p>The <strong>files</strong> provided here include <strong>trends</strong> <strong>of concentrations of specific air pollutants for the areas of Berlin and Hamburg during 2021 and 2022 (graphs & csv data)</strong>. The data derive from the official air quality monitoring stations DEBE065 and DEHH008, in Berlin and Hamburg respectively, and are taken from <a href="https://openaq.org/">OpenAQ</a> (i.e., one of the data sources feeding the GeoBI tool). </p> <p><strong>Main information regarding the provided files:</strong></p> <p><strong>1) Berlin AQ trends 2021-2022</strong></p> <ul> <li>Station ID: DEBE065</li> <li>Location: 52.513379, 13.469294</li> <li>Year of measurements: 2021, 2022</li> <li>Pollutants measured: PM<sub>2.5</sub>, PM<sub>10</sub>, NO<sub>2</sub>, CO, O<sub>3</sub></li> </ul> <p><strong>2) Hamburg AQ trends 2021-2022</strong></p> <ul> <li>Station ID: DEHH008</li> <li>Location: 53.564202, 9.967863</li> <li>Year of measurements: 2021, 2022</li> <li>Pollutants measured: PM<sub>2.5</sub>, PM<sub>10</sub>, NO<sub>2</sub>, O<sub>3, </sub>SO<sub>2</sub></li> </ul> <p>As the CALLISTO project, and thus the GeoBI tool, progresses, additional graphs related to air quality trends may be generated, which will also be made available to everyone.</p> <p> </p> <p><em>The CALLISTO project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101004152.</em></p>
Air quality, soil moisture, green roof moisture and weather data from Meetjestad
<p>Soil moisture sensors were developed by citizen science collective Meet je Stad (Measure your City). Measure your City was started in 2015 by inhabitants of the City of Amersfoort, with the goal of measuring climate related indicators. To be able to do so, collaboration was sought with the City of Amersfoort (COA), the local Water Authority and the University of Applied Sciences of Amsterdam. For the first three years the initiative focused on measuring temperature and humidity. Importantly, citizens develop their own research questions, analyze the data together with professionals and discuss potential implications. By doing so, the collective uses citizen science to spread knowledge on both technology and climate change in the most grass-roots manner possible. Within the SCOREwater project, Measure your City was asked to expand measurements with soil moisture measurements and additional temperature and humidity sensors.</p> <p>An important note here is that Measure your City develops their own sensors, has developed their own data platform and uses its own gateways purchased from the Things Network. As a result, much effort is put into constructing sensors that are reliable, low-maintenance and accurate. The latter is important for the City of Amersfoort as well, which intends to not only work on shared knowledge and understanding, but also use the data for policy making. To do so the data has to be reliable. By deploying both these sensors and purchasing company-built sensors, we can compare the data to assess how reliable the Measure your City sensors are.</p> <p>The Measure your City can also be deployed on green roofs to measure soil moisture. Whereas the soil moisture sensor measures soil moisture on two depths (10 centimeter and 40 centimeter), the sensor on a roof only measures soil moisture on one depth. In addition to soil moisture, Measure your City also measures air temperature and relative humidity. Some sensors also measure air quality (particle matter).</p>
NO2, O3, PM10 and PM2.5 concentrations - Daily geographical aggregates at NUTS3 level from CAMS European Air Quality Re-analyses.
<p>This dataset offers daily aggregated measurements of air pollutants – NO2, O3, PM10, and PM2.5 – across distinct NUTS3 regions in continetal Europe. The temporal coverage spans from January 1, 2013, to December 31, 2022, providing a comprehensive temporal context for analyzing long-term air quality dynamics.</p> <p>Each daily entry comprises key statistical descriptors, encompassing mean, maximum, minimum, and standard deviation values of pollutant concentrations specific to each NUTS3 area. Additionally, for O3, the dataset includes an eight-hour rolling mean daily maximum.</p> <p>Spatial reference is established via shapefiles (EPSG:4326) sourced from Eurostat's official repository (<a href="https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata/reference-data/administrative-units-statistical-units/nuts">https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata/reference-data/administrative-units-statistical-units/nuts</a>). These shapefiles link the air quality data to precise NUTS3 regions through unique identifiers.</p> <p>The concentration data spanning from 2018 to 2022 originate from the European Air Quality Reanalyses dataset of the Atmosphere Data Store (ADS), an initiative by the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS). Accessible via <a href="https://ads.atmosphere.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/cams-europe-air-quality-reanalyses?tab=doc">https://ads.atmosphere.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/cams-europe-air-quality-reanalyses?tab=doc</a>, this dataset offers a robust foundation for assessing air quality. For the years 2013 to 2017, data were previously obtained from a former download platform for the same dataset. Important: in future all data will be migrated to the Atmosphere Data Store (ADS) platform.</p> <p>The native resolution of the CAMS data is 0.1° x 0.1° spatially and hourly temporally. To enhance spatial accuracy, the spatial resolution was virtually increased by a factor of 5 using bilinear interpolation, resulting in a refined grid. The daily mean concentrations were subsequently computed for this augmented grid.</p> <p>Aggregated statistics were derived for each NUTS3 polygon, employing all grid cells intersecting with the polygons. The computation was based on the proportion of cell area included within the respective polygons.</p> <p>This dataset constitutes a valuable resource for conducting ecologically designed epidemiological studies, as it facilitates the exploration of potential associations between air quality and health trends across broad geographical areas.</p>
Weekly county-level pollution data for China from Zhang, Carleton, Lin, and Zhou (accepted, Nature Sustainability), "Estimating the role of air quality improvements in the decline of suicide rates in China"
<p>This dataset contains weekly, county-level air pollution data for 2,839 counties from 2013 to early 2018. These data are used and described in Zhang, Carleton, Lin, and Zhou (accepted, <em>Nature Sustainability</em>), "Estimating the role of air quality improvements in the decline of suicide rates in China". When the paper is published a link to the manuscript will be added here. </p> <p>The manuscript Methods section details data construction. In summary, these county-level observations are obtained from monitoring stations maintained by the China National Environmental Monitoring Center (CNEMC), which is affiliated with the Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China. CNEMC began publishing hourly air pollution data in 2013, including the Air Quality Index, PM2.5, PM10, ozone, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, and carbon monoxide. We average hourly data to the station-day level and use inverse-distance weighting with a radius of 200km to convert data from station to the county level. We average across days to generate county-level weekly values. Any missing station-hour observations in the raw data are omitted in this spatial and temporal aggregation. Our main analysis relies on PM2.5, but all pollutants are released here.</p>
Dataset for "LoRa Sensor Network Development for Air Quality Monitoring or Detecting Gas Leakage Events; DOI: 10.3390/s20216225"
<p>This excel file contains the raw data used in the paper " LoRa Sensor Network Development for Air Quality Monitoring or Detecting Gas Leakage Events; DOI: 10.3390/s20216225 " In particular it comprises sensor measurements and pollutant data from the automated air quality monitoring stations in the Tarragona area.</p>
Data used to create figures and tables in the ACP manuscript "Two-way coupled meteorology and air quality models in Asia: a systematic review and meta-analysis of impacts of aerosol feedbacks on meteorology and air quality" by Gao et al. (2022)
<p>This dataset contains the original data that extracted from all collected papers refering applications of two-way coupled models in Asia. It is supplied to the review paper, which titled as "Review on two-way coupled meteorology and air quality models in Asia: impacts of aerosol feedbacks on meteorology and air quality". The dataset includes three excel files (in the format of xlsx) as follows:</p> <p>1. Basic information of literatures (Table S1.xlsx)</p> <p>2. Model performance metrics (Table S2.xlsx)</p> <p>3. Quantitative results of aerosol effects on meteorological and air quality variables (Table S3.xlsx)</p> <p>4. Basic information of model setup for two-way coupled model applications in Asia (Table S4.xlsx)</p> <p>5. Summary of aerosol-induced variations of simulated shortwave and longwave radiative forcing at the bottom and top of atmosphere and in the atmosphere in Asia (Table S5.xlsx)</p> <p>.</p>
Challenges of high-fidelity air quality modeling in urban environments - PALM sensitivity study during stable conditions (TURBAN)
<h3>Introduction</h3> <p>This dataset contains the PALM model inputs and the source code used to create the simulations for Prague-Legerova scenarios performed in the scope of the <strong>TURBAN</strong> project (<a href="https://www.project-turban.eu/">https://www.project-turban.eu/</a>). Detailed description of the simulations is provided in the referencing scientific paper.</p> <h3>List of simulations</h3> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td><strong>Scenario name</strong></td> <td><strong>Days simulated</strong></td> <td><strong>IBC</strong></td> <td><strong>Configuration changes</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td>legerovas_s6_sens_base</td> <td>13–15 February 2023</td> <td>ICON</td> <td>-</td> </tr> <tr> <td>legerovas_s6_sens_dtmax</td> <td>13 February 2023</td> <td>ICON</td> <td>dt_max=0.2</td> </tr> <tr> <td>legerovas_s6_sens_heat</td> <td>13 February 2023</td> <td>ICON</td> <td>car anthropogenic heat (custom code)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>legerovas_s6_sens_sgs</td> <td>13 February 2023</td> <td>ICON</td> <td>e_min=0.02</td> </tr> <tr> <td>legerovas_s6_sens_stg</td> <td>13 February 2023</td> <td>ICON</td> <td>STG_PROFILES added</td> </tr> <tr> <td>legerovas_s6_sens_alad</td> <td>13–15 February 2023</td> <td>ALADIN</td> <td>-</td> </tr> <tr> <td>legerovas_s6_sens_alad_heat</td> <td>13 February 2023</td> <td>ALADIN</td> <td>car anthropogenic heat (custom code)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>legerovas_s6_sens_alad_sgs</td> <td>13 February 2023</td> <td>ALADIN</td> <td>e_min=0.02</td> </tr> <tr> <td>legerovas_s6_sens_alad_stg</td> <td>13 February 2023</td> <td>ALADIN</td> <td>STG_PROFILES added</td> </tr> <tr> <td>legerovas_s6_sens_wrf</td> <td>13–15 February 2023</td> <td>WRF</td> <td>-</td> </tr> <tr> <td>legerovas_s6_sens_wrf_heat</td> <td>13 February 2023</td> <td>WRF</td> <td>car anthropogenic heat (custom code)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>legerovas_s6_sens_wrf_sgs</td> <td>13 February 2023</td> <td>WRF</td> <td>e_min=0.02</td> </tr> <tr> <td>legerovas_s6_sens_wrf_stg</td> <td>13 February 2023</td> <td>WRF</td> <td>STG_PROFILES added</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h3>Directory structure</h3> <p>The directory inputs contains the model inputs and it is further divided into these subdirectories:</p> <p>- inputs/common: The PALM static driver and the emission drivers for the parent and child domains. These files are common to all simulations</p> <p>- inputs/dynamic/*: These directories contain the dynamic drivers for the parent and child domanis, which contain the initial and boundary conditions (IBC) as well as external radiation data. The three subdirectories aladin, icon and wrf contain IBCs created from the respective mesoscale model outputs. </p> <p>- inputs/legerovas_s6_sens_*: These directories contain the PALM model configuration (p3d) for both domains for each simulation.</p> <p>- inputs/build_config: The included .palm.iofiles configuration file ensures that the files STG_PROFILES are correctly copied from the input directory.</p> <p>The directory palm_sources contains the exact model source used for the simulations. It is derived from the PALM model release 23.04 with additional bugfixes. There are two source archives:</p> <p>- heat.tar.gz: PALM source further modified to include anthropogenic heat from cars, used for the simulations legerovas_s6_sens_*_heat</p> <p>- standard.tar.gz: PALM source used for all other included simulations.</p> <h3>Reproducing the simulations</h3> <p>In order to reproduce the simulations, unpack the respective source code archive and follow the standard installation, configuration and build procedures described in the README.md file within the archive and on the PALM model website http://www.palm-model.org/. Then copy the input files for the respective simulation in the JOBS directory. The common files and the dynamic driver files need to be renamed so that they match the prefix given by the name of the simulation, as is described in the PALM model documentation.</p>
Air Quality and Exposure Disparity Results for the Bronx, New York City
<p>This is the dataset accompanying the publication "Big Mobility Data Reveals Hyperlocal Air Pollution Exposure Disparities in the Bronx, New York". It contains mainly three parts: 1. day-to-day air quality prediction maps for exposure estimation; 2. street-level PM2.5 exposure and its disparity modeling results for all populations and for socio-demographic groups; 3. residence- and mobility-based exposure calculation for a sample of Bronx residents.</p>
UK shale gas air and water quality data
<p>Datasets for UK coal bed methane compositions (Airth field), shale gas composition from Bowland shale operations and produced water composition from UK Airth field.</p>
Air quality data created by the hackAIR Horizon2020 project
<p>The current datasets comprise of air quality data collected or created within the hackAIR project (https://platform.hackair.eu/) all around Europe from February 2018 until November 2018.</p> <p>i) "measurements_arduino.xlsx": PM10 and PM2.5 measurements collected by hackAIR users with stationary hackAIR sensors (https://www.hackair.eu/hackair-home-v2/). These sensing devices are based either on an Arduino or a Wemos board. The first column is the unique identifier for the measurement in the hackAIR database. The date/time is in UTC timezone, while the unit of the pollutant value is μg/m3.</p> <p>ii) "measurements_bleair.xlsx": PM10 and PM2.5 measurements collected by hackAIR users with mobile hackAIR sensors (https://www.hackair.eu/hackair-mobile/). The first column is the unique identifier for the measurement in the database. The date/time is in UTC timezone, while the unit of the pollutant value is μg/m3.</p> <p>iii) "measurements_sky_photos.xlsx": Air pollution estimations from photos depicting sky. The hackAIR platform estimates the particulate matter content in the air from Flickr photos, photos from webcams and sky photos that users upload on the hackAIR mobile application, based on the colour of the sky. This is expressed as Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD). In the current dataset, the timezone is UTC, while AOD is unitless.</p> <p>The pollutant index is based on a scale created for the purposes of the hackAIR project.</p>
Air Quality Index Scores by CBSA with Population
<p>The AQI describes the five main types of air pollution regulated by the Clean Air Act: sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, ground-level ozone, and particle pollution. The EPA and its partners take regular readings of these pollutants and converts the results into a number ranging from 0 to 500, along with a specific color corresponding to a level of health concern. Generally, if the air quality is good, the air quality index is low (0 to 50) or moderate (51-100), and the color associated with it is green or yellow. As the air quality gets worse, the numbers go up, and the color linked with it goes from orange, to red, to purple, all the way to a dark shade of maroon for hazardous (300+).</p> <p>This dataset contains the AQI scores by metropolitant area (CBSA) during 2017. I've enhanced some publically available data from the EPA's <a href="https://airnow.gov/">airnow</a> website with census data, to be able to provide context about the number of people who are actually impacted when an <a href="https://www.cleanairresources.com/resources/how-do-i-read-the-air-quality-index">AQI score</a> is high or low in a given area.</p> <p>Related datasets on <a href="https://www.cleanairresources.com/data#sources">relative composition of air pollution by source: typical distribution and during wildfire season</a> are available here.</p>
AirHeritage Datalake: Multi-site, Multi-season, Multi Unit dataset including Fixed and Mobile Citizen science data from networked Air Quality Low-Cost Multi-Sensors devices and reference stations
<p>This datalake comprises several datasets from <strong>37 networked low cost air quality multisensors</strong> (<strong>30</strong> <strong>mobile</strong> ENEA MONICA(tm) + <strong>7</strong> <strong>fixed</strong>) along with <strong>3</strong> (fixed) + <strong>1</strong> (mobile) <strong>reference stations</strong> operated by Campania Regional Envronmental Protection Agency. The datalake is organized in 3 main directories respectively related to fixed nodes, mobile nodes and nearby reference stations including a mobile laboratory used for colocation campaigns; each subdirectory include its own metadata description file.</p> <p>Data, curated by Energy and Data Science Laboratory of ENEA, include multi-weeks colocation periods when low cost devices have been colocated with reference stations as well as operational periods during which sensors are deployed for fixed or mobile monitoring campaigns. Data have been recorded during 2021 and 2022 in a<strong> pervasive, multi-site, multi-seasonal deployment</strong> in Portici, a densely populated small area city (4km2, 55k + inhabitants) located 7km south of Naples, Italy.</p> <p>The datalake consists in actual sensors and reference intrumentations timeseries along with metadata description files with deployment dates and location data. The dataset files include high sampling frequency raw sensor data of quality-controlled sensor network along with co-located reference stations data sets. Sensor data include electrochemical sensors data (intended target pollutants: NO2, O3, CO), Optical sensor data (PM2.5, PM10, PM1) readings along with meteorological parameters. .</p> <p>Further description of sensors and reference instruments are reported in the accompanying paper (see citation request).</p> <p>The dataset can be used for </p> <ul> <li> <strong>advanced (remote/universal/in field) data driven calibration strategies</strong> test or development including <strong>machine learning </strong>models</li> <li><strong>mobile opportunistic data fusion</strong> methods development</li> <li><strong>geomatics and data assimilation</strong> models studies</li> </ul> <p>as well as low cost sensor characterization performance studies. </p>
Schools Weather and Air Quality (SWAQ) –Metadata – Urban Network, Sydney (NSW)
<p>Schools Weather and Air Quality (SWAQ) is a citizen science project funded by the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science as part of its Inspiring Australia - Citizen Engagement Program. SWAQ is equipping public schools across Sydney with research-grade meteorology and air quality sensors, enabling students to collect and analyse research quality data through curriculum-aligned classroom activities.</p> <p>The network includes twelve automatic weather stations and seven automatic air quality stations, stretched from -33.5995° to -34.0424° latitude and from 150.6918° to 151.2706° longitude. The average spacing is 10.2 km and the average installation height is 2.5 m above ground level. Six meteorological parameters (dry-bulb temperature, relative humidity, barometric pressure, rain, wind speed, and wind direction) and six air pollutants (SO2, NO2, CO, O3, PM2.5, and PM10) are recorded via Vaisala WXT 536 and Vaisala AQT 420 with a 20 minutes sampling frequency. </p> <p>SWAQ data provides urban canopy layer observations of the intra-urban heterogeneity and inter-parameter dependency of all major urban climate and air quality variables, valuable across diverse urban disciplines. SWAQ stations are located where there are gaps in existing government networks, and focus on Sydney’s western suburbs, where the highest urbanization rate is taking place, to better inform future urban planning. QC procedures are designed to ensure observations of extreme episodes are not excluded. Beyond research purposes, SWAQ is a citizen-centered network, conceived to promote valuable STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) skills among citizens and students.</p> <p>This collection includes the metadata files for all SWAQ stations, in pdf. Metadata describe the site (type, geographic coordinates, elevation, orographic setting, representativeness, local climatic zone, dominant land use, percent land cover, mean tree and building heights, proximity to water/heat and pollutants sources/sinks, estimation of Davenport Roughness, traffic density, sky view factor), and the instrumentation (variables, models, manufacturers, calibration and installation dates). Site characteristics are described at three radial scales: 20 km, 500 m, and 50 m. Graphical representations include: satellite images, street-view maps, cardinal direction photographs, panoramic photos, and close-up photos of sensors, solar panels, and connections. Optimum site allocation was determined by undertaking a multi-criteria weighted overlay analysis to ensure data representativeness and quality. All SWAQ sensors are installed:</p> <ul> <li>in homogenous urban regions, without sections of anomalous variation in the regional urban makeup and aspect-ratio, and without large, concentrated heat/pollution sources or sinks;</li> <li>in areas falling into the WMO Class 4 with no electromagnetic sources that could have distorted the transmission;</li> <li>at a constant height of 2 - 3.5 m above ground level.</li> </ul> <p>The actual data is available from the Australian Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) <a href="https://https://portal.tern.org.au/schools-weather-air-sydney-nsw/22077">data portal</a> and is regularly updated. The data available from TERN has undergone a rigorous quality check routine before upload.</p> <ul> <li>Calibration: Sensors and gateways are calibrated and tested by Vaisalain controlled conditions </li> <li>Quality Assurance: Annual maintenance log</li> <li>Quality control: continuity tests, fixed range tests (on both physical and instrumental limits), dynamic range and step tests (both performed on a monthly basis), internal consistency tests (on known atmospheric relations) and persistence tests. </li> </ul> <p>The files are in csv format. On the <a href="https://www.swaq.org.au">SWAQ website</a> a non quality controlled subset is available for educational purposes only.</p> <p>This project was funded by an Australian Government Department of Industry, Innovation and Science, Inspiring Australia – Science Engagement Program: Citizen Science Grants (CSG56028).</p> <p>It was also part of the Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes research project "Attribution & Risk".</p> <p>More information is available in the readme file, in particular a full list of the variables and a legend for the quality flags used.</p>
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These curated guides explain access requirements, typical timelines, costs, and reuse considerations for widely used research datasets.
Allen Brain Atlas
Allen Brain Atlas is an Allen Institute collection of brain map atlases, datasets, APIs, and analysis tools covering mouse, human, and non-human primate brain resources.
Annotated Behaviour and Observability Dataset (ABODe)
ABODe is a University of Edinburgh DataShare dataset for behavior classification in group-housed mice using home-cage video, identities, bounding boxes, ground-plate positions, and annotator labels.
DANDI Archive for NWB datasets
DANDI is a BRAIN Initiative archive for publishing and sharing neurophysiology data, including electrophysiology, optophysiology, and behavioral data packaged as NWB and related standards.
International Brain Laboratory public data
The International Brain Laboratory public data releases expose standardized mouse decision-making experiments, including Neuropixels recordings, widefield calcium imaging, behavior, and session metadata accessed through the ONE API.
OpenNeuro
OpenNeuro is a free, open platform for sharing neuroimaging datasets, with public search, dataset pages, and download paths for web, S3, DataLad, and the OpenNeuro CLI.